Integrative Psychotherapy

In this culture, psychotherapy serves as a container for our human experience, filled with the very thoughts, feelings, sensations, and breaths that make us human. Our lives are filled with incredible pressures and stresses to not only survive, but to live a life filled with meaning. We are asked to organize and negotiate the complex inner workings of our internal experience and then navigate its inevitable change. There comes a time when our own abilities to traverse these landscapes become stalled, dulled, or reach a dramatic crisis. Psychotherapy lies at the center of this vital crossroads to support and guide you on your path.

An integrative psychotherapy must look at more than our personal stories. An integrative psychotherapy weaves together the pulses and breaths of the body, the mysteries of the heart, the processes and movements of the mind, and the strength and silence of spirit. Piecing together these dimensions of the human experience offers us a holistic opportunity for deep and long-lasting transformation. The therapeutic relationship created between therapist and client becomes the center of such personal transformation, from which the client can learn to accept and honor his or her own human experience.

In addition to more traditional psychodynamic methods, I use experiential and somatic (body-oriented) techniques to bring our lives into the present moment, the very place we can experience both our suffering and our healing. Using awareness-building methods and a compassionate heart, therapy can awaken what has fallen asleep and calm what has grown unruly. I passionately believe that this path of awareness and wakefulness leads us back to our own unique truth. From this truth, our world unfolds. I am currently seeing psychotherapy clients in San Francisco.

If you have been struggling with any of the following issues or have any questions about my work, please contact me for a free telephone consultation: 415-354-4210.

Depression
Anxiety
Anger Management
Grief/Bereavement
Relationship/Marital issues
Self-esteem/Inner critic
Spiritual issues
Life transitions/ Rites of Passage
Body Image
Trauma Resolution
Addictions/Recovery
Men's Issues